Healthy Lifestyles: Chapter Analysis

In reading this chapter understanding different health lifestyles and behaviors are really important. These two ideas of how people chose to live are very interesting in this chapter. While reading the chapter I found that different health chances and choices make a person live a certain way. The choices they make to live a healthy lifestyle can give them far more chances to live longer and have a healthy life. Reading about Weber and Bourdieu I found their research very interesting in studying why some social lasses are healthy than others. Also in studying their research they both had views on lifestyles that individuals take on. Weber viewed people’s choices to live a healthy life due to consumption. He saw that people had a purpose of …show more content…
A health lifestyle can be an individual taking the time out of his day to seek medical attention or go visit a doctor for his monthly check up. This is considered preventive care because you are preventing further illnesses because you are getting check ups with your doctor. In taking a healthy life choice that makes you want to go visit the doctor and take care of future illnesses this can give you a better chance at life. Life chances are left up to the choices you make when it comes to your health. However, a choice not to go visit a doctor moutnhly can negatively affect your health because you have the chance to get sick. A simple health behavior and health lifestyle comparison is someone that chooses to eat fast food everyday for lunch instead of eating something healthy. The choice of eating fast food can affect you lifestyle because this will eventually put you over weight and have risk for getting diabetes or other causes of illnesses. Health lifestyles according to the book are mostly taken outside the health care system, which are wearing a seatbelt, brushing your teeth, personal hygiene, coping with stress, and having physical checkups. These certain steps in daily decision-making can help your health for a positive outlook. The behaviors that can have a positive outlook on daily decision-making can be working out instead of smoking when an individual is …show more content…
A status group is people who share similar material circumstances, prestige, education, and political influence. These individuals that have the same status group share similar lifestyles. Weber also in the essay states that lifestyles are not based upon what one produces but what one consumes. This can be attached to a healthy lifestyle within an individual because that are good healthy choices because their motivation and effort. A person has the motivation to be healthy to have attractiveness or live a longer life. The status of upper class in the essay according to weber views living a healthy lifestyle has an enjoyment in their life. The life chances weber talks about ties in with his theory on someone’s particular status group. If one does not have the advantage of eating good for or having leisure time because they are always working then the have no chance of living a healthy